Seasonal Sky Quilt: Christmas

I have the idea to do a dark background quilt with white embroidery of stars and Christmas things but it is not coming together very well. I want to divide it into vertical panels and let light elements -- ribbon? fiber? sheer fabric? needle-felted fiber stripes? -- run down the vertical panels behind the embroidery like snow or Northern lights. I just found two quilts by Judith Trager that also have a seasonal theme and are using a vertical stripe. One is even winter-y. I like how she have handled the horizontal bands and made lots of surface activity.

Darker One for Mom

Someone at my Needle Felting class called me a scrapbooker and I guess I sort of am now.

More Pictures of the Albums:Brighter One for Sister

I particularly love photo number five . It is of my grandmother rowing across the Ohio River. It was taken by my great-aunt (one of my favorite people of all time) obviously sitting in the prow of the boat. I like to think of them, Ona rowing, Gladys looking through the view finder of her new camera: and now we see what she saw that day so long ago.

What I made for Christmas With My New Toy

I bought myself a Cricut Expression for Christmas and made albums for my mother and sister. It was a fun and a new sort of project for me. The darker one has "country-ish" imagery for my mother and the brighter included some commercially printed Asian-themed paper for my sister. I'll post more images separately.

I made the cords on the brighter one in a "Fairy Cords" class. The idea was to start with a one piece of cord and then, with a groved sewing machine foot, to bind other kinds of fiber to it with a zig-zag stitch. It was a fun, not very demanding, class.